Preface Acronyms 1. Introduction 2. Triple Helix: State, Class, and Ethnicity in Africa 3. The State as Ear: Information, Coercion, and the Political Police 4. The State as Bandit: Armed Forces, Coercive Force 5. The State as Family, Mobutu as Father: Political Imagery 6. The Insecure State, I: Resistance Within--The Magistrature 7. The Insecure State, II: Resistance Without--Religious Groups 8. The Dialectics of Oppression Notes Bibliography Index
"[T]his book... [is] a highly valuable work on the political system of the Mobutu regime's Second Republic (1965-90)... Schatzberg's work is a significant contribution to this study." --Developing Economies
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